If the car will idle, that will keep power to the brakes and steering.
If not, I'd call a wrecker or use a dolly.
I rope-towed the 380 SL home, I rigged a door lock
vacuum pump (from an early 126) to the brake booster
so that the driver would have power brakes. Steering
he had to do the hard wa
dave walton writes:
> Towing 4 wheels down with a rope is not a trivial task. That is to say
> that if all goes well, it's easy but if anything goes wrong things
> tend to go very, very wrong. Basically the rear vehicle should do all
> the braking for both cars and keep the rope taught.
Reminds
If you are using a 2-wheel dolly, put the rear wheels up on the thing
and take it as far as you want.
Towing 4 wheels down with a rope is not a trivial task. That is to say
that if all goes well, it's easy but if anything goes wrong things
tend to go very, very wrong. Basically the rear vehicle sho
If you are just going 5 miles a tow dollies is just fine.
Chris N John wrote:
Hi, Guys
We are needing to tow our Sadie back home. She broke down out in the
toolies. What is safe, without messing up the transmission? We need to
go about 5 miles. Or do we need a tow truck? Thanks for info and
i
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Peter Frederick wrote:
> You should be fine if you tow slowly -- those trannies have a rear pump, so
> you won't fry the guts of the tranny from no lubrication. In fact, they can
> be tow started -- run up to 35 mph in neutral and drop it into 2nd!
While you wrot
You should be fine if you tow slowly -- those trannies have a rear
pump, so you won't fry the guts of the tranny from no lubrication.
In fact, they can be tow started -- run up to 35 mph in neutral and
drop it into 2nd!
Peter
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Christy, tell us more. Will it idle? Does your tow vehicle have a hitch?,
Weather? Hilly terrain?
Thanks
Harry
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From: "Chris N John"
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Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 3:27 PM
Subject: [MBZ] towing a 1980 300 SD?
Hi, Guys
We are needing to tow
Hi, Guys
We are needing to tow our Sadie back home. She broke down out in the
toolies. What is safe, without messing up the transmission? We need to
go about 5 miles. Or do we need a tow truck? Thanks for info and input,
as always!! Christy
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